Cloud360

The dramatic advantages of cloud computing are undeniable. Organizations can benefit from more assured business continuity, greater operational efficiencies, and a more flexible computing environment. But transforming enterprise applications and infrastructure for cloud computing is challenging for even the most experienced IT professionals. Enter Cloud360 from Cognizant.
 

Cloud360 is a comprehensive hosted enterprise platform that helps technology and business managers quickly deploy and cost-effectively operate flexible and scalable on-demand IT cloud architectures.

Cloud360 greatly eases the migration of enterprise applications to private or public cloud environments. Once migrated, Cloud360 provides a full portfolio of services for provisioning, managing, and monitoring diverse cloud operations.

Transform Your IT Environment

Cloud360 provides simplified management of all your cloud efforts with a seamless, automated and dynamic service integration layer between applications and infrastructure. It helps organizations achieve agility, operational efficiency, better IT governance and tighter component coordination across the enterprise.

 

The Cloud 360 Approach

Cloud360 uses a proven engagement approach called “Transform, Integrate, Manage.” We quantify your needs, then customize a transition plan for horizontal scalability. Along the way, we consult with you, deploy the solution, and help you optimize its performance.

 
  • Conduct feasibility, as-is and what-if analyses for cloud adoption
  • Compare cloud alternatives with TCO/ROI analysis
  • Enable horizontal scalability and remove messaging bottlenecks
  • Baseline:
    • - Application performance
    • - Component-wise resource usage
    • - Virtual SLAs and thresholds
    • - Security needs
    • - Scenario modeling & trending
  • Enable on-demand provisioning
  • Facilitate push-to-deploy applications and enhanced QoS
  • Integrate self-service portal, CLI and Web services
  • Right-size cloud framework based on application logs, transactional data and messaging
  • Enable policy-driven automation
  • Integrate with existing IT environment
  • Provide portal for engineering, operations and executive management
  • Conduct 24x7 variable cost operations and remote monitoring
  • Enable application-aware services management
  • Initiate capacity right-sizing and optimization
  • Perform day-to-day cloud management, driven by business rules
  • View business metrics, resource consumption and cloud-sizing all on the same dashboard

Benefits of Cloud360

Whether you need to support growing websites, global intranets, dynamic
e-commerce traffic, video communications, complex business applications, or high-performance big data analytics, Cloud360 makes it easier to deploy and manage applications with highly adaptable cloud computing services.

Cloud360 offers many benefits to organizations that want to take advantage of cloud computing platforms. These benefits include:

Faster Provisioning — from weeks to minutes

  • One-click, zero-touch setup
  • Pre-built and customizable application profiles
  • Extensive service catalogs and pre-defined workflows

Simplified IT Management — less work, distributed control

  • Self-service dashboard lets users provision, monitor, and configure cloud services
  • Executive dashboard provides detailed view of operations across all cloud environments

Improved Planning and Budgeting — more insights, cost control

  • Detailed consumption metering and reporting
  • Identify actual costs of business services

Platform Independence — avoid vendor or technology lock-in

  • Extensive cloud vendor and technology support for Amazon AWS, VMware vSphere/vCloud, Microsoft Azure, RedHat KVM, IBM PowerVM, Savvis VPDC, and Citrix Xen
  • Windows, Linux, and AIX operating systems support

Automated Governance — control usage, ensure compliance

  • Define usage limits across all cloud environments for all types of users
  • Set operational constraints with business policies

Increased Application Performance — gain visibility, resolve issues

  • One-click, continuous applications monitoring
  • Assess performance against service agreements

Improved Security — audit use, track activity

  • Detect unauthorized attempts to infiltrate system
  • Comply with regulatory requirements

Cloud360 in Action

Some of the world's leading companies are now using Cognizant's Cloud360 to cost-effectively and flexibly address a wide-range of enterprise computing challenges.

  • High-performance, large-scale Web conferencing: For a leading software vendor, we migrated I/O-intensive Web conferencing onto the cloud. The new solution supports 30,000 concurrent meetings using screen sharing, video, telephony, and recording features.
  • Elastic compute for long-tail applications: A large media and cable services provider engaged us to transition 46 unstructured, over-provisioned applications onto a flexible cloud environment. The resulting utilization gains generated a 35% cost savings.
  • Push-to-deploy testing environments: The world’s largest security software vendor engaged us to develop a high-speed provisioning engine on a private cloud. Within a week of deployment, the system supported scaling to 3,200 concurrent virtual instances with zero application downtime.
  • Policy-driven automation for advertising platforms: For a top five Internet search company, we took just six weeks to deliver a public cloud-based advertising services platform that now handles 1.2 billion hits per day.